When LVM Goes Bad

[Paul Howarth]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
>> Hi folks -
>>
>> A story about LVM.  I believe LVM is the default on Fedora 
>> partitioning now, at least I didn't love it that much that I would 
>> have selected it, and it is on all my boxes now.
> 
> Thanks for the contribution. I would not have ever thought to take the 
> actions for recovery that you describe.
> 
> I use LVM in hybrid mode. Stuff I do not care to lose is LVM, such as 
> swap and system files recoverable via reinstallation. /home and 
> important to me information is kept on conventional partitions.

I have LVM on RAID1 with regular backups. You can never be too careful 
with your important data :-)

Paul.